Being able to cook healthfully
and well is the most valuable of all gifts.

Though many do not realize it, the ability to cook well is extremely
important to the family.

Some do not feel that it is a religious duty to prepare food properly; hence they do not try to learn how. They let the bread sour before baking, and the saleratus added to remedy the cook's carelessness, makes it totally unfit for the human stomach. It requires thought and care to make good bread. But there is more religion in a good loaf of bread than many think. Food can be prepared simply and healthfully, but it requires skill to make it both palatable and nourishing.

Cooking may be regarded as less desirable than some other lines of work, but in reality it is a science in value above all other sciences.
...This talent should be regarded as equal in value to ten talents; for its right use has much to do with keeping the human organism in health. Because so inseparably connected with life and health,
it is the most valuable of all gifts. {CD 251.2}

Here is our best bread recipe. It has great
nutrition and is light and moist.